Cloak and Dagger Reading Order

Cloak and Dagger are two of the more interesting perennial guest stars of the Marvel Universe, making them a surprising choice for any featured multimedia presence.

Indeed, after a 1980’s creation in the pages of Spider-Man comics that generated a series of short-lived solo titles (including a brief bout of desperate “We’re Mutant X-Men Too” hype), Cloak and Dagger have been without their own ongoing comic series since the early 90’s.

Nonetheless, the duo have played a role in several well-known comics throughout the 2000’s, in everything from Runaways to Civil War to Secret Empire.

Below you’ll find a complete guide to Cloak and Dagger comic book appearances, as well as collected comic book trades and graphic novels starring the Marvel Universe’s OG Runaways.

Cloak and Dagger debuted (much like the Punisher) in the pages of Spider-Man comics, before fleshing out their story in the Bill Mantlo written four issue miniseries. The duo of light and dark also made a memorable appearance in the all-time great creative run of Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz on New Mutants, slotting in between the “Demon Bear Saga” and the innovative origin of Legion on the Marvel Universe.

Cloak and Dagger ran as backups to Dr. Strange throughout the relaunched Strange Tales — While the first two of these backups are in the “Lost and Found” collection above, only Cloak and Dagger in issue #7 collected here. For now, back issue warriors are the only readers who can tap into these appearances!

In anticipation of Cloak and Dagger on Freeform TV, Marvel has put together a packaged collection of a majority of Cloak and Dagger appearances throughout the 2000’s.

While the collected edition does a nice job summing up the guest star status of Cloak and Dagger, it’s a relatively scattershot journey through the Marvel 2000’s timeline, taking you from Marvel Knights (early 2000’s) through Spider-Island (2011) and up to Amazing Spider-Man after 2015’s Secret Wars.

If you’re curious how these comics fit into the broader Marvel U, you can always check out Comic Book Herald’s complete Marvel reading order. Alternatively, I’d recommend reading the Runaways appearances first, and then reading the remaining issues after Marvel’s Civil War (listed below!).

Brian Michael Bendis reignited the roles of many Marvel Universe players during his time as Marvel’s grand architect (approximately 2004 to 2012), including a late run at Cloak and Dagger in the Marvel Ultimate Universe.

Following their debut in Miles Morales’ Ultimate Spider-Man, and after the events of Cataclsym (Cloak and Dagger appear in the Survive! #1 tie-in), the duo joins the Ultimate Universe’s All-New Ultimates.

In the alternate reality Battleworld of 2015’s Secret Wars, Tandy is in the Runaways series as Cloak, and Tyrone is Dagger. Oh also, the duo are siblings but the romantic assumptions hound them even then!

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